Speaking of Location: Future Directions in Geospatial Natural Language Research,4/9/2017, L’Aquila, Italy

A workshop to be held as part of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), 4th September 2017, L’Aquila, Italy Call for Papers Research into the description of location using human (natural) language has been approached from linguistics, geospatial, and computer science perspectives.  This multidisciplinary workshop will explore current developments in the area with a particular view to considering directions and priorities for future research.  It will include both peer-reviewed presentations and group discussions. The scope approaches to automated extraction and understanding of natural language descriptions of location in textual…

International Morphological Processing Conference 2017, Trieste, Italy

We are pleased to inform you that the 2017 edition of the International Morphological Processing Conference will be held in Trieste, Italy, at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) on June 22-24.   The core highlight will be a joint effort by MoProc founders and first organisers, Ram Frost and Jonathan Grainger, on the past and future of our discipline, moderated by Kathy Rastle. In addition to this, we’ll have a number of symposia, covering the entire range of disciplines through which we’re trying to tackle the mystery of morphology — psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, neuropsychology, and…

Traineeship position in the field of ‘Multilingual Text Analysis’ at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)

We are looking to fill a traineeship position in the field of ‘Multilingual Text Analysis’. If you are interested, please follow the instructions provided at the URL listed below. URL of call:          http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ Call number:      2016-IPR-G-000-6713 Title of call:         Multilingual Text Analysis Deadline:             21 March 2016 (Brussels time) Starting date:     1 June 2016 Duration:             5 months Eligibility requirements:  https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/working-with-us/jobs/temporary-positions/jrc-trainees The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, is looking for a trainee to support the JRC’s Europe Media Monitor (EMM) team with a variety of Language Technology-related…